Cabal's system_default_prefix

[Isaac Jones]

"Simon Marlow" <simonmar at microsoft.com> writes:

> Not to start a pointless bikeshed discussion, but I thought that
> /usr/local was the historical default for 'make install'-type
> installations (which is what this is)?  The RPM and other packages will
> override this to /usr, of course.

Since cabal is not an OS-level packaging system, I agree that it's
more like 'make install' from the OS's perspective.

> For the Windows default, we should query the OS as Wolfgang pointed
> out.

Does anyone know how? :)


peace,

  isaac